Handyman for Kaypro - CP/M

This is a discussion on Handyman for Kaypro - CP/M ; Recently acquired a machine with this board in it.
I THINK I know what it is, but does anyone have any instructions on it's
use? Or can explain things in a posting?
I acquired a K10/'83 with the Handyman, AND ...

Handyman for Kaypro

Recently acquired a machine with this board in it.
I THINK I know what it is, but does anyone have any instructions on it's
use? Or can explain things in a posting?

I acquired a K10/'83 with the Handyman, AND an Advent 1MB RAMDisk. Thing
also had some little teeny board sitting in the clock chip socket, with the
clock chip on it, with a pigtail off of it soldered to a leg of a nearby IC
- any ideas what THIS is? It is also an Advent board, about 1" square, says
"0648A1 Assy Rev A" about 5 resistors, a transistor, a diode, a cap, and
the socket for the RTC IC (MM58167A)

Acquired another K10, which was actually an '84 Kaypro 10 MTC - yup - RTC
and Modem onboard, and it is *NOT* a K4/84 hack, as that is a little
different. Never even SEEN one of these before! Popped in a TurboROM, will
be sourcing a replacement battery tomorrow (old one removed, no damage),
and replaced the drive with an ST251 with CP/M 2.2H+TurboBIOS loaded, plus
Kaypro factory software.

Bugger should hum along REEEEALLY nice!

Tony

sharkonwheels -@t- g|\/|ail.com

Re: Handyman for Kaypro

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:07:46 GMT, Tony
wrote:
>I THINK I know what it is, but does anyone have any instructions on it's
>use? Or can explain things in a posting?

Handyman was a daughterboard that implemented a number of popup
utilities, just like the MS-DOS machines didwithTSR programs. It's
been a loong time, but IIRC there was a calculator, a notepad, maybe a
calendar. There is probably an obscure set of keystrokes to trigger
it.